Sánchez tries to give diplomacy lessons to an Israel scandalized by the anti-Semitism of its government

2023-11-23 12:43:06

Pedro Sanchez has begun the agenda of his trip to Israel with a meeting with the president of the country, Isaac Herzog, before whom he has condemned the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7but he has also not missed the opportunity to criticize the Israeli response since, in his opinion, it should not “involve the death of innocent civilians” in the Gaza Strip.

The President of the Government has also assumed the narrative of the Hamas terrorists by ensuring that among these innocent deaths there are “thousands of children”while it has not criticized the fact that civilians are used as human shields and that civilian facilities, from schools to hospitals, as Israel has amply demonstrated, are used for various military tasks.

Pedro Sánchez has also allowed himself to give lessons in diplomacy which, according to him, should be the way to resolve the current conflict between Israel and the murderers of children and rapists of women from Hamas, who in his opinion would stop wishing for extermination. of Israel and the Israelis – as stated in its founding charter – to carry out the two state solutionthat is, that the Palestinians also had their own state structures and recognition.

Scandal in the Israeli press

Sánchez’s diplomacy lessons come to a country in which the press has scandalously echoed the blatant and abject anti-Semitism of some of the members of his government.

As the correspondent in the country of The world, Sal Emergui, Israel’s most read newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, showed its scandal with a report with an unequivocal headline about the “minister who supports Hamas” whose appointment “is a disconcerting decision that could damage bilateral relations,” according to information from sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “It is not clear how a policy with zero sensitivity to the atrocities suffered by Israel can serve young people and children when its X account is full of hatred towards Israel and even support for Hamas,” the article concludes.

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One of the most influential newspapers published in English in Israel and which has become one of the most read in the world after the outbreak of the war in Gaza, Times of Israelalso echoed the appointment of a minister “who defended the massacre of October 7” and who has “dozens of posts in X” in which he “condemns Israel’s actions and highlights the suffering of the Palestinians.”

An interesting fact is that Times of Israel highlights that the Government has just been appointed after “four months of coalition negotiations that have resulted in an alliance between Sánchez’s Socialist Party, the far-left Sumar party and two Catalan separatist factions, whose inclusion in the agreement is causing aa deep division among Spanish citizens“.

For his part, the Jerusalem Postthe second oldest newspaper in the country, I remembered that the father of Sira Rego “lives in the West Bank” and highlights phrases written by the minister herself on social networks such as Israel “he has been exterminating a people for 75 years” or that he has pointed out the country as “undemocratic and corrupt”, a message he published after the Israeli embassy in Madrid regretted in a statement the statements of “some members of the Government” about the ongoing war, referring above all to the then still minister Ione Herb.

Finally, the article also refers to “growth of antisemitism in Spain” with examples such as the graffiti that occurred in the main synagogue of Madrid.

He refused to see the horror

It so happens that Sánchez has taken out of his agenda during the trip the planned visit to Kibbutz Be’erione of the main scenes of the October 7 massacre and where many international leaders such as himself have gone. Joseph Borrell in his capacity as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs.

In fact, the recently appointed UK Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, if you have visited this same Thursday this community in southern Israel where you can see the level of savagery displayed by the Hamas terrorists on October 7.